17 Apr
2011
17 Apr
'11
3:30 a.m.
On 4/16/2011 4:56 PM, Chris M wrote:
Avengers Assemble!
Assembly is not dead. We just don't live in a world of computers
w/burgeoning 32kb of ram. It just isn't practical to write programs
from the ground up in Assembly. It's tough to beat optimization
besides. You really have to know how to write good assembler to write
good assembler.
You can't understand how a computer works w/o knowing a smattering of
assembly/machine code.
Anyone who is interested in learning the nuts and volts of computer
hardware is going to need to learn some assembler. Hackers need to
know assembler. Compiler writers need to know assembler. Embedded
programmers need to know assembler.
Since I am still building my home brew computer,
I have to learn C. No C++, C - or C#. I need to write
my micro-code and assembler in something that
I can port later to my new machine.
Ben.